CHAPTER IV.
TO THE RESCUE.
The next morning, I was awakened by Rectus coming into the room.
"Hello!" said I; "where have you been?
I didn't hear you get up." "I called you once or twice," said Rectus, "but you were sleeping so soundly I thought I'd let you alone.

I knew you'd lost some sleep by being sick on the steamer." "That was only the first night," I exclaimed.

"I've made up that long ago.

But what got you up so early ?" "I went out to take a warm salt-water bath before breakfast," answered Rectus.

"There's an eight-cornered bath-house right out here, almost under the window, where you can have your sea-water warm if you like it." "Do they pump it from the tropics ?" I asked, as I got up and began to dress.
"No; they heat it in the bath-house.